Bonegap5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Indeed, one common theme is the way in which presumptions and prejudices color people’s views so much, that they cannot see one another. ![]() ![]() No one believes Finn they think he is just scatterbrained and made up the story. Finn claims he saw a man take Roza away, but is unable to provide a description. They offer her a room in the empty apartment adjoining their house, and Sean falls in love with Roza. One could also say that these “gaps” are just different ways of explaining reality.Ī little less than a year before the story begins, the brothers find a beautiful Polish runaway in their barn named Roza. the bones of the world were a little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide. Finn O’Sullivan, 17, lives alone with his older brother Sean in Bone Gap, Illinois, a small rural town where everyone knows everyone else. ![]() (It has won a number of other awards as well.) If I had seen that description, I might have passed over the book, so I’m glad I didn’t this is a wonderful story. I have to admit that when I picked up this book I paid more attention to the stickers for the Prinze Award and the National Book Finalist Award than to the blurb identifying it as magical realism. ![]()
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